MSc Student workshop in Climate-Resilient Urban Design

A student workshop Climate Resilient Urban Design on May 7th was used to test the applicability of group model building in CRUD, to identify causal loop diagrams and concept maps. The workshop addressed climate resilience of the Stadspolders area in Dordrecht. Over 50 MSc students in Urban Water Management from the faculties of Civil Engineering, Architecture/ Urbanism and Policy & Management at TU Delft worked in groups that each used a slightly different approach to the assignment.

Welcome

We are working towards a universal language to communicate about the dynamics of global systems and the complex decision making necessary to produce good policy advice. Such formal domain-specific language will be employed by Rapid Assessment Tools that support a visual and participatory way of model building. The tools are to be used in difficult situations that involve the participation of different stakeholders in decision making and policy design. Under the hood, Constraint Technology will support active, goal-directed problem solving. As a test case, the problem of Climate Resilient Urban Design is being studied.